Do we know why the video games don't have more dubs?

[TheBlackPaladin]

If there's no official reason for this, that's fine, I just figured I'd ask. It seems that the video games only got the original Japanese audio and an English dub (done by FUNimation, with the exception of "Final Bout"). I'm a tad surprised there weren't more dubs produced for different countries. A Latino Spanish dub for Mexico, a German dub for Germany, etc......has there ever been a reason for that? Or are we just going on the assumption that FUNimation was the only dubbing company with a budget that made dubbing the video games practical?

EDIT: Pfft....meant to post this in the "Video Games" section. Sorry--feel free to move this, mods!

[TheRed259]

1. Japanese & English Dub are the most popular dubs among the DragonBall fans .
2. English is the world's international language . The disc contains both English dub & English subs .
3. It would be a waste of time & money . Besides, only a few countries have a decent dub (a.k.a talented voice actors) .

[NitroEX]

I'm still surprised none of the games ever had the Ocean cast tbh. The European version of Budokai 1 seemed like the perfect opportunity for it since it only had Japanese w/ English subs.

[Cold Skin]

Localized dubs are more and more common, but not for certain franchises or kind of games.
The most important ones are the Japanese one (where the game is made) and the English one is sometimes viewed as covering all Western languages, since it's the international language.
So much like a FInal Fantasy game (although both dubs are not included on a same version), it is deemed unnecessary to have anything else than Japanese (for the original) and English (for a more familiar language).
So yeah, as TheRed259 said, it's a waste of time and money for the developers, they consider you'll find the kind of dub you want if you have Japanese and English.

Most French fans would like a French dub if it was possible due to voice actors being quite high-profile here (voices you can here in popular TV shows and Hollywood blockbusters, with basically Julia Roberts as Bulma, Owen Wilson as Vegeta, David Boreanaz or Michael Gaston as Goku, etc...), and the Kai dub having proven how great it can be with serious acting and proper translation.

But a fighting game is typically the kind of game for which there's no extra money to spend hiring voice actors to re-record the entire script for each country. (although Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale has localized dub for most characters that were localized in their original game).
All other regular "adventure" games are more suitable candidates for this and have their localized dub (Tomb Raider, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Uncharted, Kingdom Hearts, Little Big Planet, Infamous...), but the most important thing the world needs from a manga is the original Japanese, to mirror their favorite show more and more watched in Japanese, and an English dub that will sound more natural to those who feel the Japanese language is "weird" because they are not used to it.

[dbboxkaifan]

Most international fans most likely to just switch to Japanese audio than listen to the English dub because they've become accustomed to the original voice cast and the games do have multiple choice of text languages. So they're sort of covered too.

European DVD sets of DB/Z/GT when they're uncut and don't have the uncut scenes dubbed they use the original Japanese audio.

Example:

(From: DBZ For Kinect)

Europa fans don't have too much to complain as NB did a fine job including their country's language with the game(s).